The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee, 1 April 2022 to 29 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Sixth Report - Stolen years: combatting state hostage diplomacy (4 April 2023)
• Sixth Special Report - Stolen years: combatting state hostage diplomacy: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report (6 July 2023)
• Ninth Report - Combatting state hostage diplomacy: A follow-up to the Government’s response to the Committee’s Sixth Report (20 October 2023)

Evidence sessions

• 17 May 2022: Jeremy Hunt
• 17 May 2022: Rt Hon Alistair Burt, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• 24 May 2022: witnesses not listed
• 24 May 2022: Lord Hammond of Runnymede
• 19 July 2022: Rupert Skilbeck, REDRESS; Dr Tatyana Eatwell, Doughty Street Chambers
• 19 July 2022: Hans-Jakob Schindler, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)
• 7 February 2023: Phil Harper QPM, Sheep One Hundred; Mickey Bergman, Governor Richardson Center for Global Engagement
• 13 March 2023: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office